Saturday, January 28, 2017

Centre Pompidou or Beaubourg as it's know in Paris turns 40 this year and to celebrate the museum is offering a free weekend February 4 and 5.
Apart from an array of special events and performances there is the opportunity to see the amazing Cy Twombly show which runs until April 24.

Organized around three major cycles – Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963), Fifty Days at Iliam (1978) and Coronation of Sesostris
(2000) – this retrospective covers the artist’s entire career in a
chronological circuit of some 140 paintings, sculptures, drawings and
photographs, providing a clear picture of an extraordinarily rich body
of work which is both intellectual and sensual. The selection includes
many of Twombly’s iconic works, several of them never previously
exhibited in France.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
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email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz